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Heavy duty floppy

I had the opportunity to take my little fellas to the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Historic Site recently, a site which I’ve visited multiple times. I wrote a magazine article about this site when it first opened, and for that article I was able to spend the entire day below ground in the capsules taking photos. I’ve been back since from time to time, but this was the first opportunity I had to bring my kids with me. This time I spotted a couple of things I hadn’t looked at closely before.

Yes, it’s a heavy duty floppy drive. There are actually two in this rack, mounted side by side. I must admit I’m actually impressed that it looks like a 5 1/4″ drive, not the old 8″ drives that I would have expected.

And how about this? A modem! Another term that most people don’t hear often, unless they’re cable internet subscribers. Even then, we’re talking about baud versus megabit these days. I remember 300baud or bps in my freshman year of college…that was painful. Compare that with the 70+ megabit service that I enjoy in my home office now, and it makes it seem like I was computing via telegraph!

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Thank you! I enjoy sharing. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to spend frequent time with my camera, and posting the results here, but now that our family’s medical and other issues are resolved I hope to be able to get out more often. Stay tuned.